mercoledì 2 settembre 2015

Museum Collection - The List (17)

The chronological list of the 100
"must-haves" making up The Museum Collection book features the world's first self-winding wristwatch at number 17 - the Harwood Automatic. The excerpt taken
from the text focuses on the origins of a project that was not necessarily brought about by a desire to avoid winding one's timepiece every day. Click here for more infos on The Museum Collection project.

The watch that winds itself★★★★

... John Harwood, a watchmaker from the Isle of Man, set
about developing different winding and setting mechanisms located inside the
watch in order to dispense with the need of an opening in the watch case for
the winding stem. In 1924, he was awarded a Swiss patent for a movement
relying on a pivoted oscillating weight that moved to and from through an arc
of 270° hitting buffer spring on both sides, ...